Boot-black stand



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L. E. FRYE BOOT BLACK STAND March 27, 1934.

Filed April 19, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 EIE'HEI INVENTOR. E E. FE YE.

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Patented Mar. 27, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BOOT-BLACK STAND Lee E. Frye, San Francisco, Calif.

Application April 19, 1932, Serial No. 606,228 1 Claim. v(c1. 15265) This invention relates to improvements in boot-black stands and has particular reference to a movable foot rest.

The principal object of the invention is to provide foot rests for a boot-black stand which may be movable from operative position to inoperative position,- so that a person in stepping upon the stand will not encounter the foot rests.

A further object is to produce a device which may be utilized with the ordinary boot-black stand.

A still further object is to produce a device which is sturdy in construction and economical to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a boot-black stand with the base shown in cross section and showing the foot rest in operative position,

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 5,

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of Fig. 5, and

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of Fig. 4 showing a portion of the stand incross section.

Boot-black stands usually consist of an elevated support upon which a chair or seat is placed and a pair of foot rests are attached to the stand either permanently or removably. If

permanently attached, a person, in stepping upon the stand to sit upon the seat, is apt to brush the clothes against the foot rests which are often covered with shoe blackening, and therefore the clothes may become soiled or torn. With the removable type it often occurs that the bootblack is busy and therefore the person stepping upon the stand is also liable to soil their clothes. If the boot-black is not busy then it is necessary to remove one of the foot rests so that the person may occupy the seat without soiling the clothes.

As a rule only one of the foot rests is removed and even then the remaining foot rest may soil the clothes.

With applicants device both foot rests are so attached that they may be moved to operative position after the person has entered the chair, and may be moved to inoperative position or out of the way when the person leaves the chair, thus always leaving the stand clear for a person to enter or leave the chair.

In the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates a chair and the numeral 6 a stand having a step 7 and a riser 8. As the stand 6 is hollow, the same serves to house a pair of frames, one frame serving to support one foot rest, and as both of these frames are identical and their attached parts, but one will be described, it being understood that there are two frames and two foot rests for each chair.

Referring to Figs. 4 and 5 the numeral 9 designates a top bar having a cross piece 11 to which are attached depending legs 12 which are in turn attached to a foot piece 13. A bottom member 14 is attached to the foot piece 13 and has its rear end secured to a vertical brace 16 which in turn has its upper end attached to the top bar 9. A bracket 17 has suspended therefrom and pivoted thereto, links 18, the lower ends of which are pivotally connected as at 19 to a curved member 21. This curved member is pivoted as at 22 to a pair of links 23 disposed on opposite sides thereof, which links are in turn pivoted to links 24, the free ends of which are pivoted, as at 26, to the bar 9.

A guide pin 27 extends through the curved member 21, the purpose of which will be later seen. A guide 28 is attached to the bar 9 and serves to guide the pin 2'7 into a slot 29 formed in the legs 12. This curved member 21 has its 0 free end bent upwardly as shown at 31 so as to have secured thereto, a foot rest 32. A finger grip is shown at 33. A bumper shown at 34 is attached to the back piece 16. The portion 31 of the curved member is adapted to pass through a slot 36 formed in one of the risers 8.

From this construction, it will be seen that when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 5, the foot rests are in the full line position with relation to the riser 8 and top of the platform 6 and therefore a person may step onto or off of the platform without encountering the foot rests. By now grasping the finger piece 33 and pulling forward on the same, the pivots 19 and 22 will permit the curved member 21 to move into the dotted line position. As soon as the pin 2'7 encounters the guide 28 it will follow the path of the arrows of this figure and will come to rest in the slot 29 which will act as the fulcrum for the curved member, while the links 18 will form a brace and therefore downward pressure upon the foot rests, incident to shining the shoes, will be elfectively cared for, and as a result a sturdy construction exists. As soon as the shoes have been shined, the bootblack pushes rearwardly on the foot rests and the parts will move to retracted position under the effect of gravity. It is to be understood that in drawing the foot rests 32 outwardly to operative positions the pin 2'7 does not immediately engage the lower edge of the guide 28 but is brought up gradually to this position, by virtue of the fact that the operator in drawing said foot rest outwardly simultaneously raises the same whereby the pin 27 is brought into contact with the guide 28 at a point intermediate its ends or substantially at a point adjacent its curved outer edge, as disclosed by the arrows in Figure 5. The pin 27 also travels downwardly against the guard and immediately leaves its lower'edge at about the same point on its return movement, until it assumes a position of restas indicated in full lines in Figure 5 i s It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and

within the stand, a connecting means pivoted at its upper end to said frame and adapted to swing forward from a vertical position, a second connecting means about as long as the first connecting means and pivoted at its upper end to said frame in front of said first connecting means, a footrest carrying member pivoted to the lower ends of said connecting means, the lower pivots of said connecting means being spaced from each other about as far as the upper pivots are spaced, a footrest on the forward end of said foot rest carrying member, said footrest carrying member being so shaped that when it is swung forward it is adapted to project out of the stand and hold the footrest in operative position, the improvement which consists in the provision of latch members on said frame and footrest carrying member adapted to be engaged by a downward movement of the footrest carrying member into operative position and in the making of said second connecting member of such a character as to permit the distance between its upper and lower pivots to be shortened or lengthened out again to its original distance by the raising or lowering of the forward end of the footrest carrying member;

LEE E. FRYE. 

